first time vermont elects an openly gay person to congress. that's because she just won with 59% of the vote and favored to win in november as well. votes are still trickling in in other races. that does it for us tonight we'll see you tomorrow. it's time now with the last word with lawrence o'donnell. one reason why it finally took a woman in the house of representatives in vermont, is because vermont only has one member of the house of representatives for the because of the population count their. it's gonna take an awful lot longer in a state with such a tiny congressional delegation. >> still a nice piece of history to savor tonight. have a great show my friend. >> thank you. >> well there is some very important news tonight from from my email, i just got an email from donald trump. it's from donald j trump,. it says it's from the official email official account of donald trump.

it says lawrence, directed to me, mar-a-lago was raided. take a look. we'll put it up in the screen take a look. says mar-a-lago was raided. the radical left as corrupt and we must return the power to the people. please russian donation immediately to publicly stand with me against this never-ending witch hunt. it even has my name there, and it even suggests a donation. he thinks i am good for $45. that's would his email list managers tell him. and there is a deadline. deadline for my contribution to $45 is immediately. immediately. i have to drop everything and contribute. i have to say, i've received a bunch of these trump fund raising emails over the years at one of my many email addresses. that's the shortest one, the

shortest, simplest one. my house got raided, send me money. and once again, once again donald trump makes american political history, presidential history with that email. an email about my house got raided by the fbi, so please give me a political contribution. no one has ever done that before. that is pure donald trump. well, nothing happened today. donald trump broke the news last night about the fbi raid on his florida home in the desperate hope that it would provoke coast to coast outraged by trump supporters and a national uprising by trump supporters, but nothing happened. there was no uprising. on social media last night one

empty-headed trump supporter got a lot of attention with a tweet to his 1. 9 million followers on twitter saying, tomorrow is war, sleep well. they are still sleeping. and 1. 9 million twitter followers who may have seen that tweet slept very, very well and none of them, not one of them went to war today. including the guy who wrote the tweet. outside donald trump's home in florida, there were more members of the news media today than trump supporters. a couple of dozen trump supporters showed up throughout the course of the day. none of them were ready for war. but they did enjoy talking on tv. >> we came out to support trump. we think it's awful what happened yesterday, we think it's an abuse of power. >> that guy is not going to war for donald trump.

justin's not going to war for donald trump. the old flag up for a while it's it. the washington post interviewed trump supporters outside mar-a-lago today they found one woman who traveled all of five miles from her home to waive an american flag in front of donald trump's home. remember now, here is some numerical perspective to what you are seeing on that little bridge near mar-a-lago. there are 5. 6 million trump voters just in the state of florida. millions of them live within an hour's drive of mar-a-lago. and all of them, virtually all of them stayed home today. did nothing. 5. 6 million trump voters in florida did absolutely nothing after donald trump's home was searched by fbi agents in plain clothes yesterday who obtained a search warrant from a federal

florida federal judge. america was not torn apart by that search warrant. as right-wing social media would like you to believe and as the fox propaganda channel would like to have you believe, there is no outrage, there is no uprising. if you take the tv cameras away, there will be zero trump supporters outside mar-a-lago. 74 million trump voters today did absolutely nothing in response to the fbi search of donald trump's home. 74 million trump voters in this country and they did nothing. social media and the news media will continue to distort the public reaction to the federal investigation of donald trump by amplifying wildly tweets from people who don't mean a single word they say, and by sticking microphones and cameras in the faces of the

microscopically tiny group of individuals who have raced to the tv news cameras in mar-a-lago. and the news media will steadfastly ignore the 5. 6 million trump voters who were in florida who are staying home and doing nothing. and the 74 million trump voters in this country who are staying home and doing nothing about the raid on donald trump's home. donald trump measures his very self worth by the size of his crowds. he has to be crossed by the zero turnout by the effect of the of a crowd in support of him. that is not a crowd that those tv cameras are aiming at down at mar-a-lago. there is plenty of room in between each one of those individuals who has traveled apparently a very short distance to be there. no crowd at all, zero crowd, nowhere in america is there a

crowd today or tonight for donald trump. donald trump appears to have the support of the leader of the republicans for the house of representatives kevin mccarthy, but that is obviously just political posturing. that when quoted by the news media, he simply turns the news media into a conduit of republican lies. but those republicans, those republican officeholders do enjoy talking on tv about their support for donald trump. donald trump is probably -- can't prove, this there is no journalistic proof of -- this but he's probably as terrified tonight as anyone else who home has ever been searched by as donald trump described it, a large group of fbi agents. 01 american journalism produces is a quote from an unnamed aide to donald trump that donald trump believes he will be

politically helped by the fbi raid. that is the news media quoting an unnamed liar about another a known liar. everyone who works for donald trump lies. so every time a trump aide unnamed is quoted, a liar is being quoted by the news media. and when that trump aide is telling you what's trump thinks, that's a liar telling you what a liar thinks. it has zero journalistic value. the best approach to this story, of the trump search warrant is to ignore the political bombast of the kevin mccarthy's and absolutely ignore the empty threats and boasts of social media. social media is a mirage to begin with but right-wing social media, that is a

complete nut house of madness and emptiness. ignore all of that and know this that 5. 6 million trump voters in florida have not done a single thing because of the fbi search of donald trump's home. none of them changed their schedules today. and 74 million trump supporters nationwide including the guy on twitter who said war was gonna start today have done absolutely nothing. the war guy himself did absolutely nothing today. but he did get a massive amount of attention to his tweet on television today. and virtually all of that attention took his war tweet seriously. the only thing we can take seriously in this story as the criminal investigation of donald trump now underway in merrick garland's justice

department with fbi agents working under the direction of an fbi director who was appointed by donald trump, searching donald trump's home yesterday, provoking him to complain in writing last night, they even broke into my safe! for what to expect next in the federal criminal investigation of donald trump, we turn our lead off guests, daniel goldman, former house majority counsel for the first impeachment trial of donald trump, is a former assistant district attorney and is running for congress in new york's tenth congressional district, also with us andrew weissmann, former general counsel and chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york. he's a professor of practice at nyu law school. and tim o'brien, senior executive editor of bloomberg opinion and author of trump nation. he is also an msnbc political analyst. and daniel goldman, now that

you've had 24 hours to take it all in and taken various news reports indicating that the search warrant was focused on possible possession, illegal possession of classified material and other presidential documents and mar-a-lago, what is your assessment of where this investigation stands now? >> well lawrence, let me start where you ended off which is the whole point was the safe, or at least it's a significant part of it is the safe. what i suspect happened is that conversations broke down between trump's lawyers and the department of justice or perhaps more likely the department of justice realized that donald trump was not being forthcoming with all of the documents that he had. my suspicion is there is a witness who is cooperating with the department of justice who provided very specific information that donald trump

was not giving over everything that he had and that he very likely may have had additional classified information remaining at mar-a-lago. that to me is the only explanation for why you would go with a search warrant rather than a subpoena because you would expect a cooperating witness to respond to a subpoena fully. but clearly the department of justice believed that if they subpoenaed donald trump for additional materials that he would obstruct justice in some way and would not turn them over. so they had to resort to the last gasp effort which is a search warrant, and my suspicion as well is that this is not for some incidental document. in order to justify such a significant search of a former president, an unprecedented search, i would expect that the department of justice to

realize that this evidence must be very important. >> andrew weissmann we have reporting in the washington post and elsewhere saying that in june the trump lawyers met with jay brat, the chief of the counter intelligence an export control section of the justice department, they had this meeting with what was there, the meeting is not a very conclusive meeting. what is your reading of that meeting? >> well jay bratt is someone i know very well he works in the national security division and he's a career official. he has been there serving under various administrations and as dan said i think this was an effort by the justice department to see if they can work this out and essentially regain possession of documents, government documents whether

classified or not classified that don't belong to donald trump. clearly something broke down. i agree with dan that there has to be evidence that was presented to merrick garland that justified his saying, you know what, we need to do this by search warrant. we can no longer negotiate, we can no longer count on a subpoena working, we have to actually go in there and get the documents. and having worked in the government at the fbi, there certainly are classified programs that would be of the type that dan referred to, that are so sensitive and so important that there is a real national security interest here

that would certainly warrant and vindicate people like merrick garland and chris wray authorizing this extraordinary search. that being said i think there is a good chance that what is going on here is really an effort to repatriate those documents so they are back in the possession of the dog government. and very secondarily the issue of whether is a criminal case that could be brought against former president, that may in fact happen but i could see the driving force here being a pure national security concern of those documents have to be brought back into the government. >> andrew, if that's it, and there is no criminal case, and this is the only way we can guarantee getting important documents back to the government will we ever know what was on that search warrant? >> so, if donald trump is charged in some fashion, and any of the evidence that was obtained in this search was used in that prosecution, then, yes, it will, then the search

warrant has to be turned over to donald trump, or anyone who is standing to object to the search, or challenge it. but it is conceivable that we would not know. another way that could come up, we've seen that john eastman had brought litigations, to challenge the search warrant in connection with his phone. it has not been successful litigation, but it has certainly given us, on the outside, insight into what the justice department was doing. and so, you could imagine that donald trump would bring some sort of litigation. i'm not sure he would, just because i'm not sure he really wants the public to know what it is that the justice department alleged in that affidavit, because i suspect he knows that, since he knows that he has there, that it's not good for them. for instance, there's been a lot of talk on social media about the fact that the president has the inventory, that is, after the search, the fbi is required to leave an

inventory of the documents that were found. it's not document by document, but it's certainly by category. and that information could be quiet damning to the former president. and he is in possession of that document. so, if there is really nothing to hide, why isn't he disclosing that? >> tim o'brien, speaking of nothing to hide, richard o'neil, chairman of the house committee had a big win today on the appeals court in washington, d. c., where they ordered donald trump to hand over his tax returns to the house ways and means committee. it's a very simple federal law that says the chairman of the house and ways commitee and the chair of the senate finance committee, the two tax warning committees have the authority to look out and individual tax returns they want to at anytime. no one has ever contested that

law before. donald trump fought it. he went after those tax returns, presumably, he will continue to try to fight this one to the supreme court. >> i think he will continue to try to fight this to the supreme court. and if precedent is any guide on where the supreme court has been on this issue, i think you just have to look at the chief justice's ruling, after he ordered trump to turn over his tax returns to the manhattan district attorney's office. and in that ruling, robert said, no individual is above the rule of law in the united states, including the president. and therefore, trump has to turn the documents over. i suspect if it goes there again, you will get a similar ruling, despite, i think, some of the pro trump sentiment on the supreme court. and so, what's the outcome of that? i think there's a good chance some of these documents come into the public record. neil, it is within neil's purview to publish these, if he chooses to do so. undoubtedly, that's gonna be surrounded by all of the partisan bickering that has accompanied any kind of scrutiny of donald trump. i think it is important that

the public actually knows what is in those tax returns, with as much specificity as possible, because one of the great untold realities of donald trump's presidency and his finances and his business records as the extent to which he's relied on foreign funding for his business operation, particularly funding from eastern europe, possibly from russia, that remains a question mark. that would have obviously patience for national security, to the extent to which trump is beholden or indebted to foreign lenders. some of that, i think, will become apparent in his tax returns. and so, i think this is a moment in which those documents, like many other documents that are coming under scrutiny right now matter quite a bit. >> all right, tim o'brien, andrew weissmann and daniel goldman, thank you so much for starting up our discussion tonight. really appreciated. >> thank you. >> coming up, white house chief of staff ron klain will join us at the end of the hour. but first, harvard law professor laurence tribe will give us his legal assessment of

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no person is above the law in this country. i can't say anymore clearly than that. there is nothing in the principles of prosecution, in any other factors, that will prevent us from investigating anyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for -- for an attempt to undo a democratic election. >> that was attorney general merrick garland, three weeks ago, fending off questions up on a possible justice department criminal investigation of donald trump. and we now know there is one underway. joining us now is professor laurence tribe, who has taught constitutional law at harvard law school for five decades. and one of his students was attorney general merrick garland. professor tribe, it's so fascinating to see that video of just three weeks ago, when there was an awful lot of impatience out there still, including here, shared by both of us, publicly, about what is the justice department doing in terms of investigating donald trump.

well, tonight, we know a lot more. >> we do. and with a reason to be confident that the attorney is proceeding, as he always does, methodically, with great precision, without fear or favor. and he is restoring faith, i think, in the rule of law. of course, donald trump calls himself a victim. he says this was a witch hunt. but the law says that he has to be given an inventory of the material that was taken from him, even though it is an inventory that might contain some redactions because we have every reason to think that some of the material might be so secret and so classified that it can't be discussed publicly. but he has that inventory. so, he should put up or shut up,

if he thinks this was an unjustified raid, he has the means of saying, there's no evidence of any guilt here, take a look. he doesn't have the affidavit. but just as john eastman brought a lawsuit to challenge the search that was undertaken in his case, donald trump is no shy -- you know, character, when it comes to litigation. he could bring a lawsuit. so, tempers in the tea pot, has no basis for complaint. he's been leading the way for every other citizen, and that's part of the course for merrick garland. >> you brought to my attention today, u.s. called title 18 a statute that you think might be applicable to what this search warrant was about. it says, whoever, having unauthorized possession of,

access to, or control over any documents relating to the national defense which the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the united states or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates the same, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the united states entitled to receive it, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned, not more than ten years, or both. so, this is a very serious statute, saying if he's just in possession of an important national defense document, that could be used to in any way hurt the united states, if obtained by someone else. if he is just in position of that, that's a crime. >> that's right. and he's been asked to turn it over to the national archives. he is holding on to it. he's holding on to it,

apparently, without adequate security. that's what the fbi seems to think, and the fbi is, after all, headed by chris wray, who is somebody who is no means partisan, on behalf of democrats. he was appointed by donald trump. this stuff just rattling around in mar-a-lago, could be very dangerous. chinese spies have been found there, lots of very sensitive technical information is there. donald trump wouldn't know if he saw it, but he knows he has an obligation to turn it over. and i very much agree with andrew weissmann, the government's insistence on grabing all this information could have been designed, principally, to, as andrew put it, repatriated, which is a fancy word of saying, get it back where it is safe, instead of where it is roaming around,

and can be used by donald trump to get leverage, possibly dangle in front of people, it's unsafe that our national security is in danger. that doesn't mean that what they discovered in the course of this search and seizure is not proven to be useful for proving all kinds of crimes, including seditious conspiracy, fomenting an insurrection, defrauding the united states, obstructing a proceeding in congress. whatever evidence they find in plain sight, as long as they're executing the warrant, and not looking in his say for an elephant, looking in places, you know, where something couldn't be found. anything they find can be used to prosecute him for whatever crimes are involved. but this particular search might simply have been designed to protect the united states of america.

>> harvard law professor laurence tribe, thank you very much for joining our discussion tonight. >> thank you lawrence. >> coming up, rudy giuliani's lawyers told a judge today that they want to know if giuliani is a target of the criminal investigation for election fraud. that's next. 's next. ♪and my clothes smell so much fresher than before!♪ try gain flings and you'll be a gainiac too. the only detergent with oxiboost and febreze. i wish that shaq was my real life big brother. what's up, little bro? turns out, some wishes do come true. and it turns out the general is a quality insurance company that's been saving people money for nearly 60 years. for a great low rate, and nearly 60 years of quality coverage- go with the general. august 17th, next wednesday,

that's the day rudy giuliani is now scheduled to testify in atlanta to the special grand jury investigating possible

election crimes in the last presidential election. rudy giuliani's lawyers say he is not healthy enough to fly to atlanta due to a recent heart procedure. today, the judge said there are many other ways for giuliani to travel to atlanta to testify. and the judge urged prosecutors to tell giuliani's lawyers whether he is a target of the investigation before he testifies before the grand jury. joining us is gwen keyes flemming a former district attorney, and a friend of the district attorney fani willis running this investigation. so rudy giuliani's had heart surgery recently, he says it's too risky for him to fly from new york. the judge said well, maybe you should start driving, maybe you get some sort of comfortable bus. how do you resolve things like this? >> well, i think the judge did it. more time is given for mr. giuliani to appear in court and the judge laid out several

different ways of transportation. i think he also included trains as well as buses and other ways that he could get there. >> and as this goes forward, is a witness like giuliani subject to returning to the grand jury? does the subpoena exist after you leave that room and you might have to come back at different times? >> the subpoena would be valid up until the special grand jury is over. however, prosecutors usually try to organize their questions and testimony in a way so that they won't have to have a witness come back. but again, this is an ongoing investigation, there may be subsequent witnesses that raise questions that they did not know about. as of next wednesday the 17th, but again usually prosecutors

and we have seen fani in this case usually very orderly and methodical and, how she is presenting her evidence. >> so the judge says they should really should tell him if he is a target because then he will know that he is very likely at the grand jury to invoke the fifth amendment and tha could actually tell him that he won't be in front of the grand jury for very long which is relevant to his heart condition. >> so i do think that the da and her team will adhere to the judge's request but let's also remember that back in february, 2021, fani indicated that she was looking not only the former president but several of his allies and that there were public reports indicating at that time that she would specifically seek mr. giuliani 's testimony and appearance before the georgia legislature. so when you take that into account with some of the other things she has said since then, while he may not have received

a target ball, i think her team may disclose that they are looking at him as a possible conspirator. >> gwen keyes flemming, thank you for once again guiding us through the news of this investigation. we really appreciate it. >> my pleasure, thank you for having me. >> coming up, president biden is struggling under the crush of news of the trump search warrant to get attention to his big week of legislative achievements including the most important climate legislation ever passed by the united states senate. white house chief of staff ron klain will join us next. ext. ns because i trust their quality. they were the first to be verified by usp... ...an independent organization that sets strict quality and purity standards. nature made. the number one pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults.

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will look back at this week, when all have passed, and all moved on, that we met a moment at this inflection point in history. not only we bet on ourselves, believed in ourselves, and we captured a story, the spirit, and the soul of this nation. >> of course, this week, in history, will be remembered as the week of the search warrant. but president biden is hoping this week will also be remembered in history for his major legislative achievements, including the legislation he signed into law in the rose garden today, when he made that statement, legislation to ensure this country has an adequate supply of computer chips, which is at least as important as an adequate supply of gasoline, the price of which continues to drop, with the biden administration hoping to claim credit for some of that

too. chief of staff ron klain joined us for an interview on all of this yesterday, and we couldn't bring you that interview last night, after the fbi raid on donald trump's home filled our coverage for the hour. but everything ron klain had to say is still worthy of attention. and so, we'll play that tape in a moment. after a marathon session this weekend, the united states senate passed the hastily written inflation reduction act, in the most dramatic way possible. >> on this vote, the yays are 50. the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided. the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the bill, as amended, is passed. [applause] >> vice president harris cast her 26th tie breaking vote, with the passage of the inflation reduction act on sunday.

the only vice president to cast more tie breaking votes than vice president harris was john calhoun, who left office in 1832. no president has come close to joe biden's success in legislating with a 50/50 senate. politico reported the passage of the inflation reduction act will make biden one of the most legislatively successful presidents of the modern era. the bill will invest 370 billion dollars, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to about 40% below the 2005 levels. and cut the cost of prescription drugs by allowing medicare to negotiate the prices of medicines. the bill is paid for with a 15% minimum tax on corporations, with a billion dollars or more in income, and enhanced irs tax enforcement. it is costing, for the majority leader to thank everyone who helped pass a bill like this. senator schumer got emotional, when he thanked the people behind the scenes.

>> i need to compose myself a little bit here. every senator knows an undeniable truth, we can never do what we do without our amazing, incredible staff. they work behind the scenes. they never fall under the spotlight, but they do incredible work nonetheless. >> joining us now, someone who is been doing that behind the scene, for most of his professional life. white house chief of staff ron klain. ron, thank you very much for joining us. this bill, as brian schatz, senator brian schatz, who was actually seen crying on the senate floor when this was passed, he was so joyous. he said, this thing got killed and got revived, and got killed and got revived, all the way to the end. now, in all the time that i've been watching this kind of legislation in the senate, i've never seen one get killed and revived, then get killed and revived again. usually, they get killed and

revived, maybe once. usually, they get killed, and they never get revived. when did it start to come together? >> well, i think, lawrence, i think you actually have to go back to 2019, when president biden, then candidate for president, looked at why climate change legislation has never passed. it was because the folks who have been used in the past, or split people apart. and he campaigned on the idea that we could get climate change to a better place. we can combat this existential threat by putting forward a plan to create clean energy jobs in america, a plan to move this country to a clean energy future. that would not only reduce emissions, as we, say the spill reduces emissions by 45% over the 2005 baseline, but also, create jobs, rally the unions behind fighting climate change.

and that policy put forward in 2019 is really the summon substance of what the senate passed this weekend. along the way, there are a lot of ups and downs. and you can't give senator schumer enough credit for sticking with it. continuing to work with his colleagues. as you said at the top of the show, we have a 50/50 senate. that means nothing passes, both bernie sanders and joe manchin don't both vote for. that is a tough coalition to knit together. senator schumer did that. i think it starts with the idea, as the president put on the table, but a lot of great leadership from the majority leader in the senate. >> is this a better bill because of the over year long process that it went through, which was a reduction process, taking it from possibly a more than two trillion dollar bill, down to maybe something close to a trillion now, down to oh maybe around 400 billion. did that trimming make it better, especially in this

inflationary atmosphere? >> well, look, lawrence, obviously, we are disappointed that some of the things we put into this package originally aren't there. we're gonna continue to fight for childcare. it's important. people need it. we're gonna fight for elder care. we're gonna fight for more housing. all of the things that are not part of this package are still very, very important to the president. but make no mistake about it, this bill is a history-making bill for two reasons. first of all, these historical investments in fighting climate change, senator schatz, who you quoted earlier, said now it's the most significant climate change ever inacted in the united states. it's the most significant climate change legislation ever enacted in the world. that's one of the reason why this is historic and significant. there is the second reason why it is, this bill shows that the president, the democrats, can stand up to special interests and beat them. for 30 years, when you are working on capitol hill, as we

were trying to defeat the drug industry on this medicare pricing thing, and we've never been able to do it, trying to defeat the climate deniers on climate change, never been able to do it. trying to fight the big corporations, and have a minimum tax, so billion dollar profit corporations have to at least pay some taxes. these are long-standing generational fights against special interest. and the democrats, the president, come together, found a way to win those fights for the first time. i think it's also a very historic pivot here. >> ron, happy birthday. no one's gonna believe this in the audience, but you are creeping closer to the threshold for medicare eligibility and social security eligibility, which is right around the corner for you on social security. we saw this weekend, republicans uniting against that idea of medicare beneficiaries, being able to benefit from negotiated drug prices that medicare can

negotiate directly. you also have republican senator scott, who is leading the republicans effort in the campaign, saying that social security should no longer have guaranteed funding. that social securities funding should come up for congressional votes, regularly, just like every other, so-called, appropriated funds programs. what do you say to seniors out there, who have already reached this age, that your so rapidly approaching at this point, who are relying on social security having guaranteed funding? >> yeah. thanks for all that, lawrence. i appreciate all that age buffing up there, thank you. look, this is a fundamental difference between democrats and republicans. as you said, you saw over the weekend, democrats go to the mat to lower prescription drug

costs for seniors. medicare negotiation, as you mentioned, but also, a 2000 dollar annual cap on what seniors have to pay out of pocket for their share of their drug expenses. a tremendous change to make medicare stronger, and more effective for seniors. and on the other hand, senator scott, the chair of the republican senate campaigne committee, says that medicare and social security should be wiped out after five years, with no guarantee of a replacement. senator ron johnson from wisconsin, another senior republican, said that medicare -- said that social security funding should be discretionary. congress should decide what the social security benefits should be. it is not discretionary to pay into social security. working people pay into social security their whole lives. it's taken out of every single paycheck. and the idea that it can be wiped out after five years, like senator scott says, or congress could just change all the benefits every year, that like senator johnson seem to suggest, shows that republicans have extreme views on social

security and medicare. democrats are fighting for these programs to protect these programs, and republicans are in a very different place. >> ron, i was not one who blamed the president for the increase in gasoline prices. i'm not giving him credit for the drop in gasoline prices. am i wrong about that? does the president deserve credit for the drop of these prices? >> i think he deserves some credit, lawrence. i think fundamentally, as you say, gas prices go up and down based on a world market. and that is the bulk of price increases, price decreases. but the president did two things here that have led to one of the fastest declines in gas prices in history. the first was this historic release from the petroleum reserve, putting 1 million barrels a day more on the market, which helped to bring our price down. we are working with our allies to have them do the same. second, he put pressure on the

oil companies, when the price of oil came down he said, hey, you should lower the price of gas as fast as the price of oil is coming down. and that's why, not only is it going down, lawrence, but it's gone down almost $1 in just about six weeks. you know, the price of gas go down every single day this summer. obviously, there are big economic factors on the global price of oil. the president worked hard to make sure that starts to come down, and most importantly, that it's passed along to consumers. >> ron, how many more birthdays you expect to be enjoying, while working in the white house? >> lawrence, i will say i have enjoyed zero birthdays while working at the white house. every day here is stuffed, so why don't we just leave it at that? >> all right, we will leave it at that, and lets just make a day, a year from now, from that same location. ron klain, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks, lawrence.

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